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UCLA Football: Ranking 2018 from easiest to toughest game

By Mike Regalado

WESTWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 27: Chip Kelly speaks to the media during a press conference after being introduced as UCLA's new Football Head Coach on November 27, 2017 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Josh Lefkowitz/Getty Images)
WESTWOOD, CA - NOVEMBER 27: Chip Kelly speaks to the media during a press conference after being introduced as UCLA's new Football Head Coach on November 27, 2017 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Josh Lefkowitz/Getty Images) /
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ARLINGTON, TX – DECEMBER 02: Head coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners raises the Big 12 Championship trophy after defeating the TCU Horned Frogs 41-17 at AT&T Stadium on December 2, 2017 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX – DECEMBER 02: Head coach Lincoln Riley of the Oklahoma Sooners raises the Big 12 Championship trophy after defeating the TCU Horned Frogs 41-17 at AT&T Stadium on December 2, 2017 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /

10. Oklahoma Sooners | Gaylord Family Oklahoma memorial Stadium, Norman, OK | Sat, Sept. 8

The competition is tough enough, but when this game hits the airwaves in Week 2, the entire nation is going to be watching this game to see if Chip Kelly can pull out some magic and get a victory or if what he is bringing is just an illusion.

A third option, especially if Kelly and Co. keep the game respectable, is that critics will say that Kelly still needs a few more years to make this team elite, but either way this game is going to be a measuring stick for the Bruins.

Not only will Kelly be going up against a very good coach in Lincoln Riley, but the Sooner roster is still packed with players that went to the college football playoffs last season. Even though Baker Mayfield is gone and there is uncertainty with Kyler Murray, Oklahoma’s going to put up a fight, especially in Norman. The Sooners are not going to let some up-and-coming UCLA Bruin squad show them up, especially since they want to get back to the CFB Playoffs.

Either way, this is going to be a very interesting game to watch, simply to see how Kelly game plans against another top tier coach.